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Server load: DreamHost vs WebFaction

I got tired of the slowness of DreamHost servers and its consequences, such as sites being down or extremely slow from time to time. So I decided to migrate progressively over the next weeks to WebFaction because:

  1. The costs are the same.
  2. They don’t overload their servers.
  3. They have an excellent reputation in the TurboGears community.

So here I offer a comparison on the server load in my DreamHost shared host vs my WebFaction shared host.
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How to install setlock on Debian?

That’s the only question Google and IRC don’t answer – but after this post Google will.

About two hours wasted to find out the freaking stupid solution:

aptitude install daemontools-installer
build-daemontools

And hit ENTER for every question.